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Nathaniel Peabody Rogers --lawyer, poet, editor of the Herald of Freedom [Source: Herbert Aptheker,
Anti-Racism in U.S. History: "Mr. Rogers was the son of Dr. John Rogers, of Plymouth, N.H., where he was born, June 3, 1794." [Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, A Collection From the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers xiii (Concord [New Hampshire]: J.R. French, 1847)]. He was a graduate of Dartmouth (1816) and practiced law until 1838 when he assumed editorship of the Herald of Freedom, an anti-slavery newspaper, in Concord, New Hampshire, upon the death of its previous editor, Joseph Horace Kimball. After an 1845 dispute over the ownership of the newspaper, Rogers issued essentially the same newspaper under the title "The Herald of Freedom." [See generally: James Grant Wilson & John Fiske, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889); The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 11, at 320 (The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography makes no mention of Rogers being a poet.] My thanks to George Fullerton who brought several errors in my first posting on Nathaniel Peabody Rogers to my attention.] Writings Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, A Collection From the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (Concord [New Hampshire]: J.R. French, 1847) [online text] _____________________, A Collection from the Miscellaneous Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (Manchester, New Hampshire: W.H. Fisk, 1849) [online text] |
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